Keynote presentation at Open University of China, Beijing, 18th October 2018. digital

1. Tales of Open Education from Two Islands:
Thrills, Tensions and Transformations
Professor Mark Brown
Director, National Institute for Digital Learning
Dublin City University
Beijing, China
18th October 2018

12. 2019 Conference
Dublin

13. Fernglen 1876Ireland New Zealand

15. 96 years later

18. http://www.massey.ac.nz/

21. 1. Quick thrills
2. Unresolved tensions
3. Digital transformations
Outline….

22. If Open Education is the solution
for higher education, then what is
the problem?

23. 1. Quick thrills

25. “With the coming of the New Media, the need for
print on paper will rapidly diminish. The day will
soon arrive when the world’s literature will be
available from The Automatic Library at the
mere pressing of a button”
(Uzanne, 1994; cited
in McFarlane, 1997, p.173).

26. (Uzanne, 1894; cited
in McFarlane, 1997, p.173).
“With the coming of the New Media, the need for
print on paper will rapidly diminish. The day will
soon arrive when the world’s literature will be
available from The Automatic Library at the
mere pressing of a button”

27. “I believe that the motion picture is destined to
revolutionize our educational system and that
in a few years it will supplant largely, if not
entirely, the use of textbooks,”
(Thomas Edison, 1922)

28. “We will undoubtedly have lectures of every
conceivable kind presented to us right in our
homes, when practical television arrives,
possibly a year or two off.”
Short Wave Craft, 1935

30. 20+ years ago…

32. “In 50 years… there will be
only 10 institutions in the world
delivering higher education
and Udacity has a shot at
being one of them”
(cited in Leckart, 2013, P.28)
In a March 2012 Wired cover story, Sebastian Thrun
predicted:

33. “Technology-enhanced learning involves an
ongoing cycle of hype, hope and
disappointment” (Gouseti, 2010).

34. Gartner
Hype
Cycle

35. “Resilience requires
adaptation and evolution to new
environmental conditions, but retains core identity”
(Weller & Anderson, 2013, p.55).

39. 2. Unresolved tensions

41. “It will not be possible to satisfy the rising
demand for Higher Education, especially
in developing countries, by relying on
traditional approaches.”
(Sir John Daniel, 2013)
Past President,
Commonwealth of Learning;
Previous Vice-Chancellor,
UK Open University

43. Rhetoric Reality Gap

45. Teachers’ mindsets play a key role in
shaping innovative practices

46. Learning by sharing
(Connectivist)
“Learning by listening”
(Instructionist)
Learning by doing
(Constructivist)
Learning by making
(Constructionist)
Pedagogical
Compass

47. Learning by sharing
(Connectivist)
“Teaching by telling”
(Instructionist)
Learning by doing
(Constructivist)
Learning by making
(Constructionist)
Pedagogical
Compass

49. …the old ‘pump, pump, dump’
model of teaching still dominates practice
The uncomfortable reality is…

50. Near vs. Far Gap

52. 2018

53. 2018
https://www.icde.org/models-for-online-open-flexible-and-technology-enhanced-higher-education

55. "Using new digital technology to improve
education is not rocket science... it is
much, much harder than that”
(Diana Laurillard, 2009).

56. 3. Digital transformations

57. Education
in
Change
Education
for
Change
Navigating Through Entangled Futures

58. What type of
learning futures
do we want new
Open Education
to serve?

59. Open Education
needs to challenge
our ideas of what constitutes the
good society
for better futures—for all

60. Critical
Consumers
Critical
Citizens
EDUCATION FOR THE 21st CENTURY
(Delors Report, 1972)
LEARNING
TO BE
LEARNING
TO KNOW
LEARNING
TO DO
LEARNING
TO LIVE
TOGETHER
Critical
Thinkers

62. E

64. Final remarks…

65. If Open Education is the solution
for higher education, then what is
the problem?
Final remarks…

66. Access
Quality
Cost
Iron
Triangle

69. Go raibh maith
agaibh!
Thank you